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That men and women communicate differently is pretty much common knowledge. What's not so common are the ways that these differnces cause so many problems and just what those differences really are. What is known are the effects of this miscommunication. The frustration that so many couples feel when they just don't understand what the other person means when they say certain things, or that your partner doesn't get what your saying many times either is a huge stumbling block in creating true happiness between men and women. The specific differences in the communication styles and even timing that cause so much anger, confusion, misunderstanding and even broken and destroyed relationships is something that really takes time and effort to understand and especially apply.
Learning these truths doesn't mean that there won't still be misunderstandings and confusion between the sexes. No matter how much knowledge we have when we speak or listen to someone from the opposite sex say something, our own built in programming will still take over and hear something in a way that were programmed to do. A good amount of this can be overcome with time and understanding, but it probably won't happen a full 100%. But it can make a huge difference in the amounts of fights, arguements, hurt feelings and misunderstandings that goes on between men and women. In time as you get to know the other person better and better armed with this knowledge you'll be able to lessen those points of contention and misunderstanding to the point where they occur very rarely and almost disappear entirely.
What has to be understood is that you CANNOT use your male or female oriented points of view to figure out or interpret what the other person is saying! You MUST have a solid understanding of what the other person means when they say certain things. This is critical if your going to avoid the countless misunderstandings and mistakes that occur in relationships which too often leads to huge fights and breakups and along with it, broken homes and families too.
I'm my own research and experience in talking with countless people over the years along with experts in the field it becomes clear that most of this misunderstanding stems from the fact that women do not use the English language in a proper way when it comes to communication. What I mean by this is that insted of using language in a literal way, there is always an emotional bent to their words and meanings. It starts with women putting their own slant and an almost opposite meaning onto various words in the English language. I alluded to this when I talked about the nice guy syndrome above. Women tend to reverse the true meaning of a word from a majority to a minority but when they speak. Even though they're still using the correct form of the word which to men especially, still conveys the original dictionary meaning while the woman really mean something either totally different or completely opposite.
The second problem is that because of a womans emotions, nearly everything is blown out of proportion at the same 7-10 to 1 ratio. Because of this men never know how serious something is or is not. That's because when a woman keeps blowing truly minor things out of proportion, men who are first take it really seriously find out that it's only something minor in reality, but in the womans reality it's a major thing. This is akin to constantly crying wolf or fire and then when a real wolf or fire appears you wonder why no one is responding. Simply put, women tend to exaggerate everything.
This emotional exaggeration is really a huge problem because while men can exaggerate when telling stories or sometimes blow things out of proportion too, for the most part this is only done at certain times, like when telling an amazing story or perhaps relating something seriously traumatic to another person. But to women, it seems as though nearly everything is a seriously traumatic event in one form or another, which again leads to the constant exaggeration and misrepresentation of the truth and facts. For a man understanding the psychological and emotional reasons behind this is paramount to beginning to understand why they do this so much.
While this will still be confusing to men, it does help at least figure out when your woman acts so nutty so often, especially at that time of the month for many. The main cause of this behavior stems from, once again a womans deep insecurities and fears. Women walk around in a state of constantly feeling "unloved" to a large degree. While we can all feel this at times and is especially true for those who have been abused in some form whether physically or emotionally, women seem to have this to a very large degree nearly all the time. Again that same 7-10 to 1 ratio comes into play. Because of their out of control emotions, a woman is always seeking validation for her own fears, love and support because this is how she is assured for a brief moment that she is important and loved and this helps boost her low or non existent self esteem.
So what does this have to do with exaggeration then...everything. What women do when communicating is to purposely blow things out of proportion and make every little thing seem like a big deal. This is done so that you will react and over react in a huge way, also making it seem like a big deal and thus giving her a proportionally large amount of validation and hopefully, empathy.
So in essence she is actually trying to manipulate you, though this is done unconsciously and not in an intentional way. But she makes everything a big deal and blows it all out of proportion, then when you also accept this and give her the empathy and validation that she's looking for, then she herself will actually realize that it's not a big deal after all and feel better about the situation and herself.
I know that many men are now scratching their heads and thinking WHAT???!!..WHY??..why do they do that?? What for?? Right...what for. Well again they're looking for that constant reassurance that you care because just telling them here and there is of course never enough for most so when they're feeling down or blue and in need to extra support they'll either greatly exaggerate or completely make up a story in order to get the empathy and support they require.
To men this is completely alien behavior. Men do not walk around in a state of constantly needing support or empathy and then behave in this way. When you do this we have NO clue what the heck your talking about, what your doing or what your looking for. Instead of ASKING directly for support, women make up stories or exaggerate existing situations or emotions to force you to get as upset or emotional as she is, thus giving her the empathy that she wants and needs and feeling better about her own reactions and herself.
Now this is a huge problem when a woman applies this to a man because one of the LAST things men HATE is when someone tries to control them, manipulate them or cause them to feel emotions that are not really there. This is why men regularly talk about women playing their constant mind games. Whether they're the making him jealous game to see if he really cares, exaggeration or anything of the sort. This is really very true because that is exactly what they are, though most women don't think of it that way and of course they accuse men of playing games too, but I'll get to that a little later. But if your making up a story or exaggerating to make someone feel something that they don't normally feel, then it is a type of controlling them..controlling them through lies, misinformation or exaggeration in this case. But to women it's just a little lie and when it comes to getting the support they crave it's basically nothing. Women in general seem to be able to lie very easily because of their "water" minds which are flexible and unstable emotionally, so to them the truth is often seen as being very fluid and not solid. I'll get into male type lies a bit later on.
At first a man takes these stories at face value as the woman, very much like a little child would do, embellishes the story to a degree equal to the amount of support or love she feels she needs to feel loved and thus better about herself for the moment. Once a man realizes this he turns from wanting to believe in his woman to starting to get angry at the constant exagerrations and lies for yes, even an exaggeration is a type of lie, it's false information at it's core. While this is not done intentionally for the most part, there are women who are aware of this and know that they can use it to their advantage in many situations.
This tendency of women to exaggerate things and trying to get support or validation from a man is a major communication problem between the sexes...why, because men do NOT understand WHAT validation and/or support are in any way, shape or form!! Let me repeat that... Men to NOT understand what validation and/or support are in any way, shape or form. We don't understand it in terms of and the way that women use these terms or needs in a relationship that is. The only time a man uses or thinks about the word validation is when he needs to validate his valet ticket for getting his car parked or have something approved.
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Here is one that I'm sure that most if not every man will relate to SO much. Why do women have to start arguments about nothing, make it out to be SUCH a BIG deal and why do they start arguments when everything is going fine!. This is one of the MOST aggravating things if not THE most aggravating thing about women overall. Women seem to LOVE to argue, fight, and start conflict and it's as though they get OFF on it..that's because in fact..they DO!
Now sure there are men like this as well again, it breaks down at about that same rate as the 80/20 rule. I've had many women email me and say that men are the ones that love to argue too, but this is only true in a very narrow definition. Women will say things which they may not consider starting an argument, but just the fact that they had to say something negative along the lines of something that was not done when SHE wanted it done for example, IS starting an argument or fight.
Many of the arguments or fights that women start have to do with another aspect of women, that most of them are control FREAKS and also LOVE to constantly argue and fight with men, to buck his power and authority all the time. Many women have admitted to me after days or weeks of verbal jousting and arguing that they LOVE to make men mad. I would say..well that's quite dangerous because you love it until you get knocked across the room, but even then women never seem to learn that it's their mouth that's setting the man off...why, because when a man get's mad at such things she figures, because women assume that men are like them.. that he's just having an "emotional day" and because she is "PERFECT" it can't possibly be anything that SHE did...oh no way!!, lol. But this is in fact what many women think and feel about themselves, especially in their "I'm superior" days of radical and goddess feminism in the world.
Most women would rather DIE then to admit that they're wrong to a man and in fact women brainwash each other by telling themselves that it's ALWAYS the man's fault. Everything wrong with women, their emotional pain, problems, trauma, hurt, fears, insecurities and everything..are ALL because of men. So NEVER admit that your wrong to a man. If one of the pack (female pack that is) gets out of line and does try to take responsibilities for her actions, the rest of the pack will constantly berate her to bring her back in line with the party thinking.
Women have a pack or hive mentality. That is why they go to the bathroom in groups, to dance clubs in groups, constantly talk and share everything and always seek and need the approval of the hive or pack. Women will even date and marry a man according to what her pack or groups says and if they (her friends and inner circle) don't like the man they're dating, many women will in fact dump him even if she had feelings for him. This shows you how much women listen to other women, even if the advice is totally wrong.. if it's coming from another woman, most will listen and take it in hook, line and sinker. That is why the establishments that pushed feminism (like the CIA for example) knew that they had to get women to do it and that the rest of the female population would just blindly go along with it with little to no independent thought at all.
Women think almost exclusively in terms of one word "FUN". To her, arguing is fun because the man takes it seriously while to the woman, it's mostly fun and games. Women have a very sadistic side to them that they keep very well hidden most of the time. They're able to cloak themselves and their true intentions and feelings to a remarkable level. This is why women can become cold in an instant after just being hot. I'm sure many men will relate to the strange phenomena.
What does that it mean that women think that arguing is communication? It means that most women argue in order to get a man to share feelings that he normally does not. Since women CRAVE and are dying to know everything that goes on in someone’s mind, especially the man they’re with, they use arguments as a way to FORCE a man to reveal his feelings about things that he either doesn’t want to talk about or won’t talk about. Women figure that even the little bit of “feelings” that they get from the man arguing, even if it’s in anger is better than nothing. Little dot most realize, or even care too, that they’re not only ruining the man’s feelings for her but causing him Great stress on his body, his heart and mind. This is a major reason why men get a lot of heart problems too. Sure smoking, drinking, poor diet, lack of exercise and such are all factors as well. But I’ve heard it over and over again from men of all ages and how their wives jus constantly complain (she considers it sharing of course) about negative things and problems, cause useless, pointless bickering and arguing over silly, stupid and useless things and how it so stresses out the man, angers him, aggravates him and more. Not only because of the arguing itself but because there is NO logic, rhyme or reason for the argument and it’s so stupid and petty and makes NO sense..and men HATE it when things make NO sense and they can’t figure it out. Why do you think that men devote their entire lives to science, physics, astronomy and so many other sciences…because they’re completely focused on trying to understand….EVERYTHING!
I’ve had a number of “arguments” with women for several days or weeks in email, chat rooms and in person in the last couple of years as I was trying without success to get them to see various things that they were doing wrong. They would make it a point to come back with childish attempts at insults and such to get me annoyed. When it never worked and my attitude was like “yeah whatever” and I would move on to the next thing or just say it differently after a while they would say “wow, you have great control and discipline, you don’t really get mad” I said I do, but just not at what your saying or your childish attempts to get me mad because I know your female tactics and games. Even though we were communicating and talking back and forth…to her it was like being on the debate club in high school or something..it was just “talking” and “sharing” while I was getting more and more frustrated because you just can’t get women to see logic, sense or reality in general. They want to consider everything to be on the same level, never want to “judge” or analyze anything and want to consider all things equal. So they’re not arguing to really try and prove a point..they’re more getting off on the actual argument itself and enjoy just saying the opposite thing even if they might know that it doesn’t make any sense or that what your saying is right, they’ll just keep going to keep the banter and dialogue going forever until someone gives up.
Again..it’s all taken as a game or a big debate. She’s not caring much for what the point is or who is right or wrong as much as she’s just “having fun’ with the argument. The madder and more insistent the man gets, she actually has more fun because she thinks “wow, he’s so ‘passionate’ about his idea or belief”. It never even dawns on her that the man is not really enjoying it because she again assumes and falsely concludes “well if he wasn’t enjoying it, why does he keep going” I’ve already explained that before that it’s because he is doing it to teach and make a point of why he’s right and to TRY to get the woman to see it, never realizing that the woman doesn’t CARE to see it…she just wants to argue because it’s “FUN” or she thinks that this IS communication. She doesn’t realize that that she is causing him great harm to his health, heart and possibly the relationship itself. But even when I’ve told this to many women… many still don’t care and they just keep on going with their silly arguments, put downs and insults with their bf’s or husbands.
A friend of mine works as a personal aid to a disabled boy and is very close with the family and the boys mother is always starting silly arguments with the husband and even with my friend. He said to her one day “do you enjoy getting me annoyed and starting trouble??’ She replied “of course, it wouldn’t be any fun otherwise” he said well it’s not fun for me at all!. She was somewhat surprised, but kept doing it anyway. One day the boy’s mother told the boy (who is wheelchair bound) that he had to take a bath. The boy was not in a good mood and has a good temper at times and can be very moody and wild. The mother kept insisting and getting him more and more mad to the point where my friend had never seen before after 8 years. The father said “why are you getting him mad, you can see he doesn’t want to take a bath, WHAT is the big deal, he can take it tomorrow!” but again the mother kept saying “take a bath, take a bath!!” and finally said “because I SAID so!!” again, the whole control freak thing.
This brings up a very important point because most men have grown up wit their mothers constantly aggravating them, pushing them to the limits and beyond. This causes tremendous anger and frustration at their mothers and the LAST thing they want is a girlfriend or God forbid…WIFE that does the exact same thing, talks down to him, treats him like he’s stupid or weak or tries to control him. But that’s what happens nearly all the time, that a gf or wife will end up doing the exact same thing to her husband that the mother did to him growing up.
When a man is a little boy, before puberty, this is not that bad overall, but when he hits puberty and his masculine strength, intellect and confidence go up, this same behavior really becomes a problem big time. The control freak aspects of women that guys can’t stand in their mothers and observe all the countless arguments and fights between mother and father cause a huge lasting impression upon him as an adult. Again, it’s the absolute last thing ANY man wants to have to deal with in a wife, but because women have little to no clue about their own nature and have even less control over it, and even of those that are aware most don’t even care to stop it because it’s too much fun they’re not really going to be stopping it anytime soon.
Women also argue and fight because of the fact that they hate to be bored and would rather stir up crap and have a fight than be bored because NOTHING is worse than being bored to a woman. Women seem to have almost no clue how to entertain themselves and it’s as though they need almost constant 24x7 entertainment. Many women get into relationships or marriage simply to be entertained, even at the expense of the man’s physical health or mental sanity. In many conversations with women one of the first things they have said to me is “what are you going to do to entertain me?” I’m like…WHAT??? Where did you get the idea that it’s my job to entertain you?! They would come back with a silly quip like “of course it’s your job, what do you think you’re here for?” ha ha..again, everything’s a joke. While she may try and play it off as a joke, that is what most women think that men are here for, for their entertainment and fun since most women today of the younger generations seem to think that the entire purpose for life is fun, especially at the man’s expense physically, mentally and especially monetarily.
In Chinese medicine a woman is yin or water energy and a man is yang or fire. Men often want peace and don’t get into relationships overall to be entertained or fight but for love, sex and companionship…not because we’re looking for a lifelong partner to “communicate or share our feelings with all the time”. Yeah, sometimes that’s nice…when WE want too share it..not when a woman demands it. Nor does a man need to be nagged, coaxed, poked or prodded 50 times to make him share his feelings, which is a major reason why women keep going on and on asking a man “how do you feel, what’s wrong and such”. When women do that they’re doing it to..again, test the other person to SEE how much they really care..the more times you ask, the more it shows you really care. But this is flawed and foolish to apply to a man because men do not do this to other men. Men ask one or twice at the most, then out of respect for our friend…. We leave him alone to sort things out on his own. By leaving him alone it’s showing respect, we’re not taking it as “oh my friend cares about me or loves me” oh please..no, no, no! So when a woman tries to nag a man into sharing when it’s clear he doesn’t want you, you’re only pissing him off BIG TIME because each time you ask your proving that you have NO respect for him, his wishes, feelings or intellectually ability to solve his problems and emotions on his own.
I’ve gotten off my real topic here again, ha…. So men are as fire and want peace in relationships overall… women are water which is cool or cold by nature and has to constantly be warmed up (often a problem), arguing causes a strong reaction in her energies and mind, like a fire that starts to warm her up and make her boil, just like laughter does. The sound of laughing Ha, Ha is a fire sound which is related to the heart (the fire organ). So when we laugh it’s a release of fire energies which has a pleasant feeling, one reason humans love to laugh. Well women of course LOVE to tell you that they “Love to laugh”. So much so that in personals what is one of the first things they nearly ALWAYS say if you ask them what they like to do “I LOVE TO LAUGH”..umm..that’s NOT what the question really was asking for. That’s a REACTION to something else, not what you like to do in terms of ACTION not RE-action. We all love to laugh, breath, sleep and hopefully have sex…is there really ANY reason to list these common and mundane things?? No, but again to women it’s “just sharing” don’t take everything so seriously…oh brother, lol.
So arguing, laughing, fighting and conflict cause a woman’s yin or water energies to start to warm up and boil which feels good to her. The same thing happens during sex to both sexes and once that person’s energy reaches the boiling point, you have an orgasm. But since men are already hotter, warmer and have much more fire energy (one reason why men are physically warmer too) he does NOT want to get any hotter…he wants to COOL his mind and energy OFF. This is another reason that men need and love sex more too because when a man orgasms he’s releasing his fire energies and as I heard one stand up comedian say recently on TV “I don’t know about the rest of you but when I rub one out, I’m more calm, peaceful and loving to my fellow man, things don’t bother me as much and I’m just a more pleasant person to be around”. Overall this is very true. Women on the other hand mostly use sex as a means to an end, as a means of control over men but again. There is a cartoon floating around the internet that shows a little boy and girl in their underwear. The girl is pulling out the front of her panties with the boy looking down and she’s saying “You see that, that’s how I’m going to control you” OMG, …More on that in another section, lol.
So to sum up some of the main reasons why women love to argue, they are;
Women think that arguing passionately is communication
Women love to see or make a man mad
She's trying to get you to share feelings you would only share while arguing
To her it’s not an argument but a debate or “sharing”
To many women, arguing is better than being bored
Arguing and fighting stirs up her water energy, brings it to a warmer state which is pleasurable to her, but not for the man at all.
It was a humbling and shocking experience to read Lori
Gottlieb’s new book, Marry
Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough—but I’m so glad I did.
Gottlieb is a single mother who, at 37, wanted a biological child and had one
on her own. She wrote a story in the Atlantic about being a single mom trying to date; based on that article, her new book
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“There’s a big difference between compromising and settling,” Gottlieb told
me over the phone. “I don’t want the takeaway to be, pick the next guy off of
Match.com and marry him. I’m saying, you don’t have to do anything differently
if you don’t want. But if you feel like it hasn’t been working and you’re
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qualities that are important. You can find someone you’ll be really happy with
and fall totally in love with. These guys are all around you but you’re not
giving them a chance. You could be passing up tons of Mr. Rights. And you’re
going out with all the Mr. Wrongs. It’s less about what you wear or do on a
date than it is about having healthier standards. You can still have the fairy
tale, but it will look different from what the media portrays as the fairy tale.…The
same unrealistic expectations we have about dating, we have about marriage,
too. Married people have said that this book makes them appreciate their
husbands more.”
Here’s what many single women do that we might want to reconsider:
1. We feel entitled. (WAY too much so!!) Gottlieb: “Women try to be good friends to each other. We say, ‘You deserve
this, you’re so great! You’re such a good catch! Any man would be lucky!’ [Men
don’t say that to each other.] We are good catches, but we also are human and
we’re not perfect and somebody’s going to have to put up with us for the rest
of his life. And we forget. My dating coach said, write down all the reasons a
guy would not want to date you. At first I didn’t think I had that many things,
because you think you’re a pretty good catch. He said, what you think of as
quirky, endearing, and cute, is really annoying to someone else. But he would
love you so much that he would overlook that. And you need to overlook things
in him. Everybody has to compromise.”
2. We think we have unlimited options.(Part of feeling Entitled) Gottlieb: “You walk into a store and you know you want a sweater and it has to
go with this outfit and it has to be this color, and you’d like to be on sale.
You find something great, but you wonder if there’s something better out there,
so you keep searching. In the end, after three more weeks of searching for the
perfect sweater—was it so much better than the one you could have bought
originally? Whether it’s with men or sweaters…if you just think you have
unlimited options for the rest of your life, of course you’ll keep looking, who
wouldn’t?”
3. We’re judgmental.(But HATE to be judged by others) Gottlieb: “The guys I interviewed for the book said women judge them so much.
Women gave me 300 reasons they wouldn’t go on a second date with a guy, and men
gave 3. When guys are ready for that stage of life, they find someone who is
good enough that they’re totally in love with—but that person may not seem to
the outside world to be as appealing in superficial ways—maybe she’s not as
accomplished or funny as the last girl. Whatever he sees in her, he does. Guys
don’t sit and micro-analyze a woman the way a woman would with a man. He knows
she’s not as hot as the last girl he dated, but that’s okay. She’s hot enough.”
4. We’re pickier than men.(Seeking "Perfection") Gottlieb: “With online dating, we judge based on objective criteria (height,
sports nut), rather than subjective (attraction), which you can’t judge until
you meet the person. When you read other people’s profiles, don’t make
assumptions or rule them out because of one thing they wrote. You can fall in
love with a guy who wrote that he likes Madonna, but you can’t fall in love
with a guy who isn’t kind.”
5. We go for the alpha males. Gottlieb: “In cities where you find a lot of really ambitious, Type A, driven
people, like in NYC and L.A.,
with the entertainment business and Wall Street…you get a lot of ‘maximizers’
[people who keep looking over their shoulder for something better]. Maximizer
women date maximizer men. They will be just as picky in a bad and unhealthy
way. The men who are actually available and wanting commitment and who are
smart and funny and cute—maybe one guy is a little bit shorter, so he’s not
getting the women. Maybe he’s not smooth initially or in big groups, but he is
one-on-one. These are the kind of people who when you’re 35, 45, 55, that
you’ll be happy with when you’re married, and the guy who is super charming at
the party and has the crowd of women around him, maybe he’s not going to make
as good of a husband. Maybe he’s not going to call you back. That guy is going
to be judgmental and picky, and who wants that?”
6. We think, “I love me more.”(Women never love a man more than they love themselves) Gottlieb: “We don’t need a man. We don’t. But if you want one and you
go around with this attitude of ‘I love me more,’ [what Samantha said in the Sex
and the City movie, after she dumps a hot guy who helped her through
cancer (and female audiences cheered)] well, a relationship is about
reciprocity, so you need to love yourself and you need to be able to have some
selflessness and love somebody else. Women take Samantha’s message as really
empowering. If you don’t want to be alone—maybe Samantha does—that’s a
dangerous message.”
7. We think he needs to share every interest.(Part of Pickness and seeking "External" compatability)
Gottlieb: “We say, ‘I’m a writer, but he doesn’t read! I’m creative.’ But
people can be creative in different ways, and the fact that he doesn’t read the
same books that you do, well, maybe he wants someone who he can talk about the
baseball game with but you’re not that person. The guy doesn’t have to be
one-stop shopping. You’re not going to share every single interest, and that’s
okay. The shared interest should be, Do we want the same things out of life? Do
we both want to be married right now?”
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